When it is finally on sale here in Europe it will be a much better phone. There are still some serious issues which needs to be resoled until I'm ready to buy one. I have found out that:
*bluetooth can't be used to transmit content to other devices. *music files can't be used as ringtones or as a wake up signal for the alarm clock. *MMS messages can't be received at all. *third party Java games can't be installed on it. *there are at the moment only 10 000 youtube clip available for the iPhone. *everytime you change SIM card the phone has to be reactivated. This is extremly stupid and annoying. Especially for people who have more than one *SIM card or those you frequently travel to different countries. *email passwords and user namne can't be saved *content such a pictures and music from the net cannot be saved on the phone. *No memory card to increase capacity.
This has always been my problem with Apple. They develop amazing products but then they deliberately put stupid limitations on them to control what the user can and cannot do. As a power user it bugs the hell out of me since I want to be able to to exactly what I want to. If atleast half the big flaws above are resolved when iPhone 1.5 is launched here in Europe, I will happily hand over 500 or 600 euro to Apple for an iPhone
I was thinking about this and I figured in the end that you actually could receive them. When a phone can't recieve an MMS (ie 2G phones), most carriers send a text message saying "go on the internet to find the contents of this MMS" with a URL and a password/ID for the contents of the message. Since the iPhone has internet, you can view the contents of the message from Safari.
I know it's a roundabout way of doing it, and you can't *send* MMS, but just saying. you CAN receive MMS on the iPhone.
I'd have one if a. it was available prepaid and b. if I wasn't in Australia
do you know the coolest thing of the iphone? you can update it. maybe you won't have 3g with a software update but a lot of feature that you ask you could find them in the next update... who knows...
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When it is finally on sale here in Europe it will be a much better phone. There are still some serious issues which needs to be resoled until I'm ready to buy one. I have found out that:
*bluetooth can't be used to transmit content to other devices.
*music files can't be used as ringtones or as a wake up signal for the alarm clock.
*MMS messages can't be received at all.
*third party Java games can't be installed on it.
*there are at the moment only 10 000 youtube clip available for the iPhone.
*everytime you change SIM card the phone has to be reactivated. This is extremly stupid and annoying. Especially for people who have more than one *SIM card or those you frequently travel to different countries.
*email passwords and user namne can't be saved
*content such a pictures and music from the net cannot be saved on the phone.
*No memory card to increase capacity.
This has always been my problem with Apple. They develop amazing products but then they deliberately put stupid limitations on them to control what the user can and cannot do. As a power user it bugs the hell out of me since I want to be able to to exactly what I want to. If atleast half the big flaws above are resolved when iPhone 1.5 is launched here in Europe, I will happily hand over 500 or 600 euro to Apple for an iPhone
Can you really not send pictures to a friends phone through bluetooth? That's weak!
*MMS messages can't be received at all.
I was thinking about this and I figured in the end that you actually could receive them. When a phone can't recieve an MMS (ie 2G phones), most carriers send a text message saying "go on the internet to find the contents of this MMS" with a URL and a password/ID for the contents of the message. Since the iPhone has internet, you can view the contents of the message from Safari.
I know it's a roundabout way of doing it, and you can't *send* MMS, but just saying. you CAN receive MMS on the iPhone.
I'd have one if a. it was available prepaid and b. if I wasn't in Australia
do you know the coolest thing of the iphone? you can update it. maybe you won't have 3g with a software update but a lot of feature that you ask you could find them in the next update... who knows...